Gentoo alert 200306-04 (lprng)

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Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
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gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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GLSA:  lprng (200306-04)
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Sat, 14 Jun 2003 18:40:18 +0200

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-04
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          PACKAGE : lprng
          SUMMARY : symbolic link attack
             DATE : 2003-06-14 16:40 UTC
          EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <lprng-3.8.12-r1
    FIXED VERSION : >=lprng-3.8.12-r1
              CVE : CAN-2003-0136

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psbanner in the LPRng package allows local users to overwrite arbitrary 
files via a symbolic link attack on the /tmp/before file.

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/lprng upgrade to lprng-3.8.12-r1 as follows

emerge sync
emerge lprng
emerge clean

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